Right-to-repair legislation now covers TVs across the European Union, and the U.K. is looking into a significant expansion in residential e-scrap collection.
Right-to-repair legislation now covers TVs across the European Union, and the U.K. is looking into a significant expansion in residential e-scrap collection.
One of Canada’s largest e-scrap processors has made the leap to Latin America.
Shortly after establishing an e-scrap collection partnership, Samsung and the repair-focused franchise uBreakiFix have launched a recycling awareness campaign.
This story has been updated.
Regency Technologies has purchased GEEP USA, giving the already-large processor facilities in Michigan and North Carolina.
Processor EPC recently expanded with a location in Peru, boosting the company’s presence in Latin America.
A property owner paid $1.1 million to clean up e-scrap abandoned by 5R Processors in Tennessee. State regulators say a similar effort in Wisconsin will cost close to $2 million – and could come out of public funds.
Iowa State University engineers have developed a method that uses oxidation technology to recover pure precious metals from e-scrap.
Pennsylvania e-scrap firm Owl Electronic Recycling installed e-plastics sortation equipment in response to China’s scrap plastic import ban. That’s proved beneficial for the latest market disruption restricting the scrap plastic trade.
Metech Recycling will pay the state of California $310,000 in penalties to settle a legal fight over years-old waste law violations.